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Chicago examiner the weather Â«\;Â§ Chicago and vicinity partly cloudy monday and tuesday mod \ 5 erate northeasterly winds becoming ifm variable % vol viii no 203 a m Chicago august 15 1910 monday monday jucfcttnd la u 8 patent offtofc exceptional bargains || are offered flatly in the musical in y\l strumenta columns of the examiner ks a if you wiah to get a new or second v .'. i hand piano at a rery moderate prie 1 4 read to jam m â‚¬ price one cent hy carrier v cents per month 100,000 in panic is belgian fair is burned women are trampled as men fight to escape white city flames two die loss may be 20,000,000 animals are burned alive as heat blocks efforts to shoot them special cable to the examiner brussels aug 14 the white city of the world's fair as the belgians have called their 1010 exhibition is to-night a mass of flames and smoldering ruins a spark falling into inflammable material in the telegraph building kindled flames which driven by a high wind swept rap idly in all directions soon tiie belgian english and french sectious were de stroyed the loss is estimated at from 10,000,000 to 20,000^000 the flremeu and detachments of soldiers called quickly upon the scene found them selves baffled by the veritable gaie which carried burning embers to all parts of the grounds to the left of the main building arose the picturesque roofs and spires of bra elles kermesse a belgian coney island with water chutes toboggan slides and scores of side shows tills place was alive with sunday crowds and before they could b gotten out with any semblance of order the kermessee wad on lire the crowds became panic-stricken one hundred thousand men women and ehil dren fought madly to escape the exits became choked with the struggling masses and meu used their lists to clear the path way many were trampled tinder foot and badly injured djt.amite pails lo stop fire a fire company from antwerp attempted to dynamite the bridge of the french sec tion in the hope of checking the tire but the flames leaped across and engulfed the italian russian austrian japanese chi nese and norwegian buildings forty houses on avenue splbosch adjoining the expesitii i were destroyed troops were ordered out and lame at double quick t â€¢ aid the police in clearing the great grounds this was ' accom plished iu fair order fecept within the limits of the kermesse where the vast crowds became entangled in an almost inextricable mass fighting desperately to find an esftipe from the flames which swep vi'-iuusly through the tinticr-likc structures soon the eutire facade tumbled iu ruins considering the rapidity of the eonflagra j tion the small loss of life is marvelous so far as known up to a late hour to j night onlj two are dcati the injured 1 as officially , announced number thirty \ but probably many hundreds received mi 1 cor hurts animals ordered shot as the names reached the menage e a command tvaslgiven to shoot the beasts but heat drova back the soldiers and the ;.!.;:â– !. .;.; were left to their fate tie multi tudes ere driven back to a safe distance and watched the thrilling spectacle Â»:' the destruction of the while city tongues of ere inor.'jted high into the heavens and flaming errrbcrs were carried off by the wind and jell upon the residences beyond betting ibera ou tire finally tl*c tire was gotten under con trol the belgian and english sections are in ruins while aii the other sections in cluding the american were partly de stroyed baud of thieves engaged in pillage and a soldier was stabbed while trying to ar â– â– â€¢-. : three icen wo v be found rilling a jewelry exhibit tiio exhibitors ars heavy sufferers belgium's white city stood near the end ci tin avenue i ouise the fasiioaahle park driveway which on the west side of brus sels leads i ul to the beautiful hois do la cambre the unllonr.i thn of the ilel ginn section roc majestically on a slight elevation facing tho main entrance to the left of the main bulhung was tl.-e kermesse pray for rain torrent pennsylvania srnogut broken after 20 pittsburg pastors petition â€¢ pittsiu bg i'a aug 14 prayer for rain from a score of pulpits iu pittsburg i was apparently answered to-day in short i order at 4 p ro the drought which hits had western pennsylvania in its grasp fori about ten weeks costing perhaps a million i dollars worth of damage was broken by a terrific torrent accompanied by hail the rain lasted some time and the weather bureau reported to-night thai the fall had been m2 of an inch the heaviest rainfall at any one time in almost two years there wa.s more prayer from pulpits for rain to day than at any other time iu the history of pittsburg ward sells lake home cliicnjjofi.il Â« ocimoiiiowoc estate lsi i plirchnmol j s i fourteen milwaukee wis aug 11 the a mongomery waul property on i.ae i.a belie has been purchased as a home by s Â«; courteen of ' milwaukee ohm of the director â€¢â– 'â– the wisconsin central road the property is lovatetl on lac la belle and has 100 acres ol land and a number of buildings the ward property is known a i.a belle knoll and is one of the most fceautii'ul iu the u'xnily of uconomoivoe florence nightingale florence nightingale angel of crimea dead woman who first organized system j of nursing on europe's battle fields expires in london special cable to the examiner london aug 14 florence nightingale the famous nurse of the crimean war and the only woman who ever received the order of merit died yesterday afternoon ! in her london home although she had | been an invalid for a long time rarely | leaving her room where she passed the i time in a half-recumbent position and was under the constant care of a physician her death was somewhat unexpected her funeral pill be simple as possible in accordance with her wishes jn may i last she celebrated her ninetieth birthday and was the recipient of a congratulatory message from king george florence nightingale has since the crimean war been regarded as the angel of the british army and occupied a place in the love and esteem of the people of the british empire corresponding to that hrtd in the united states by tiara bar ton founder of the red cross educated in nursing by the protestant sister of mercy at kalserwerth on the i rhine miss nightingale proceeded to the i crimea jn 1854 and organized a system of nursing which did much to mitigate the horrors of that long and desperately j fought campaign before the crimea the presence of trained nurses on the battle ] fields of europe was almost unknown and j her methods were adopted by practically i all civilized nations for her services in the crimea she wa*s given a testimonial by the f.nglish people of 250,000 and this she devoted to the fnunilatirn of the nightingale home fox the training of nurses she was also given the title of lady of grace of st john of jerusalem on being admitted to the order of st john later miss nightingale made a study of the sanitary condition of the british army in india and wrote . a voluminous report she was also author of i.ifo and heath in india notes on hospitals notes on i nursing and other volumes of a like nature florence nightingale was born may 12 iv.x and was the daughter of w k night ingale of ismbley park bomsey and lea hurst derbyshire preach in esperanto v/amiitiiglon pastors speak in siew l.crtiiase to visiting ijelegntes washington aug 14 men from many nations to-day attended church serv ices in washington and heard the ritual of the church read in esperanto the one lan guage that every race represented could un derstand these church services were at tended by most of the 1,200 delegates to the congress the protestants attended service at st paul's episcopal church where the rev raul hoffman of balti more rend the liturgy i;t fluent esperanto the catholics were eared for at st pat rick's church where the usual english parts of th mass were said in esperanto thirty-seven nations are represented and the picturesque language is heard on every side queen in war on plumes kiigrlinli sovereign sniÂ«l to footer uill prohluhltfa tralfic in i?irtl spci ial c able o the examiner london aug it the next session of j parlinnient is likely to b enlivened by i an interesting debate on the plumage bill j introduced before the dose of the last session for prohibiting tl'e ale or ex i change of plumage bird which are sae ! rlmced in enormous numbers ou the altar of fashion the report thai l^uetn mary herself inspired the bill is suffleieu ta lu'umlke an active anil successful kawpalgr vinre the gteat millinery establ'shmelils wuiidl had formerly opposed sn.-i moa ures are uot likely to oiler any opposition woman to win bet is man five years works for eight responsible new yoik firms without discovery hail fellow well met then she lets her hair grdw and elena smith replaces albert c martinez i * new york aug 14 with the disap j pcaraueo of albert c martinez the volatile j'young argentinian who has a host of ! friends in the city and the reappearance jin the world of elena b smith long i thought to be somewhere in south amer ! ica by her friends one of the most re i markable oases of a woman masquerading ! as a man has come to an end i in this city of new york which bonsts ' of its sharps eyes for nearly five years a i slender girl successfully eluded not only j detection but even suspicion , to win a wager she was compelled orig i inally to enact the role for but one year â– but complications arising she persisted ! for nearly four years longer until gradually j she was enabled to efface the man and j restore the woman without a too great ! shock to several fnmilies during the period mentioned it has been learned by independent verification mrs j smith held a man's position with at least i eight well-known business houses of the i city a hail fellow well met as a hail fellow well met after business j hours she lunched daily with her business 1 acquaintances drank with them smoked j with them and went to baseball games and races her identity was never guessed at then as a married man for to aid her she had a young woman who posed as her wife she gave entertainments at her home to the men of her acquaintance and their wives in return she visited ! their homes with her wife mrs fleita b smith is a slender dark j haired young woman with nothing mascu line in her appearance now that she has returned to skirts within the last month her voice is low pitched but soft and gentle she is now stopping at a hotel in the city where she narrated to-day the sto.'y of her eventful experiences masquerade follows wager mrs smith is the daughter of a new york family and married young she went to south america where she acquired a thorough knowledge of spanish she was in boston in july 1005 attending a bus iness college and bad no idea then ol ever becoming a man a group of men in a boston club one night in june 11105 were talking of a recent case in new york city where an employment agent turned out to have been a woman masquerading as a man the assertion was made that only women who were masculine in appearance could ac complish such a thing a physician con tended that he could find a woman in boston to do it and a wager was the result next day ths physician broached the subject to his smith and agreed to pay her 82 500 if she could live in a city pass as a man work as a man mingle with men for one year without detection the re sult of this was that as a man albert ('. martinez the young south american appeared in new y'ork a few weeks ago mr martinez began avoiding barber shops gradually absented h|mself fro:n business and mrs elena smith reappeared well lures rockefeller john i gets klieuniatlnm av'ntcr addresses farmers t'lnb cleveland 0 aug 14 a mag netic - well near chardon has attracted the attention of john 1 rockefeller and residents see him in his motor car nearly every afternoon the well water is said to alleviate rheumatism on his visits mr rockefeller has become acquainted with many farmers and he is expected to at tend the geauga county pioneers reunion september 10 at newbury several days ago the oil man on one of his motor trips to chardon gave a short address to the ruswell farmers club at the home of c h hlekox he stopped at the house anil introduced hiuiseir to the 100 farmers present 34 are killed in wreck 10.s j'uhkenprei's mostly school girls injured on l<'reuclk incursion special cable to ihe examiner paris aug 14 thirty-four passengers a majority of then scado girls wore killed and 10s othero were injured many â€¢.â– '. them so badly tint it is feared they are dying iu the wreck of an excursion tr'iin at hau jon i i-si.v the accident came without warning and in the ft'lld panic that fol lowed i > â€¢ Â« - crash many of the passengers were trampled npou cud probably family injured speedillg at :.!â€¢;;;.â€¢ miles an hour the excursion train with 1,'j.0 passengers on board struck an open switch and before the engineer realised the til smashed into a side-tracked freight train gad's hill teacher hurt mrs esther a est of hiiwtan hit by car and sent to hospital i i sirs esther v est of Chicago a teacher at gad's hill camp at lake clnff is ia i iierloiim condition at the jane mcallister i i-ivspllsil in yauke an frpmj ahock and â– brabtes sustained through being strut by lau electric car i luke uluff last night lake forest's rich play camera tag new picture-taking game be comes fad in north shore i millionaire colony snapshot wagers made lolita armour and mrs e a russell enthusiasts byron l smith hunts views a brand-new fad has struck the chi cago millionaire colony at lake torest the fad may not inaptly be termed specialized photography men and wom en are the faddists almost any afternoon a group of men whose names are well known in the busi ness and social world of Chicago may be seen wandering about the grounds of the fashionable onwentsia club with their eyes glued to a strange looking and strauaely shaped black box that they hold in their hands the boxes ire graflex cameras such as newspaper photographers use in their work the cameras are built for speed for taking snapshots exclutlvely byron l smith ardent devotee byron l smith president of the northern trust company bank trentis l coonley orville e bnbcock arthur t aldis frederick a mclaughlin and his brother george and joseph e hub bard are some of the most ardent devo tees of the graflex camera among the ranks of the onwentsians lolita armour and mrs e a russell are two other enthusiasts mrs russell has some fine pictures to show for her work miss armour has not had much success the men have become proficient in their work where formerly each worked alone the rivalry smoiig them has become so keen nowadays that they go hunting for good picture subjects in groups it is whispered on the verandas of the on wentsia club that many friendly wagers are made among these rich men as to who shall turn out the best action pic ture of a certain object agreed upon to be snapshotted freddie hires an expert just how the fad started no one knows freddie mclaughlin appeared at on i wenlsia one day with a camera tucked under his arm accompanying him was an expert hired to show mr mclanjrhlin the mysteries of the camera it is said that the compensation of this expert was 20 j a day byron l smith went to europe and while in berlin possessed himself of a fine camera he took many pictures abroad to mr smith's intense surprise when he returned be found that messrs coonley the mclaughlins aldis babeock and others were bent ou the same line of work then the amateur photographic contest began in earnest battle in theater lobby amelia bingliani'i hnshand fella man who calls her friend cleveland ohio aug 11 â€” lloyd bingham husband of amelia bingham fought a one-round battle with john lane connor leading man of the holdeu stock company in the lobby of the eiclid avenue garden theater there was no decision miss bingham last night played at the gar den and connor attended he did not like his seat went to the box office and declaring himself a good friend of the star de manded another seat lloyd bingham over heard iiim and asked his wife if she knew connor being assured she did not he demanded to know of connor why he had used his wife's name to get a better seat one word brought on another and the men were soon pounding each other iu regular pugilistic style btugham's white shirt front was stained by the blood from con nor's nose and face before spectators in terfered throne no bar to duke opposition to abruiti denied ao.st in the avnj rome aug 14 from a court official close to the king and queen of italy it was learned to-day that they had never opposed the marriage of miss katharine l elkins to the duke of abrttzzi the prin cipal objectors were the dowager queen margiierite and the duke of aosta abrux isl new intends asking them ii they are sti'l opposed to the wedding and if the reply is favorable abrurzi will make miss elkins his duchess and roynl princess should the reply be unfavorable it is re ported the duke will renounce b s title and will marry miss elkins in america it i learned that the duke has made a request to i'm king ami queen to permission to present miss elkins and her parents at i court and that the king has decided to re | ply after be eonsult.l the other members of the royal family vatican stand is firm willing to kestime neyotiatioiis if i>a:u holds i'p new laws special cable to the ejraanliser kome aug 14 the vatican's attitude i unchanged it is willing to resume tie gotiatioÃŸs tit the sthwe reached with lite bite government of spain but spain mrst v;t held leg bit ion regarding religions af fairs until a uoufplcte f.ettlemenl is eon a ic4 ii is in â– :â– lb-it the spanish ain ht'ssa/der visited the vatican before tearing coins richest baby in steel cage mcleans ward off kidnapers armed detective watches robber-proof peram bulator recent raid cause of new precautions sar harbor me aug 14 â€” a steel cage on wheels cunningly wrought by a skilled craftsman and safeguarded by locks of . the most complicated design for the morning rides of vinson mclean america's 100,000,000 ' baby is the latest and most startling novelty which the fond parents nave taken to protect this little croesus against kidnaping this steel cage perambulator lias followed ab a result of the recent attempt of burglars to break into the edward beale mclean mansion at bar harbor the mclean baby is now as carefully guarded from all save his nurse as if he were a little prisoner held as hostage whenever he goes out of doors he goes in his carriage cage padlocked and a pinkerton detective armed with the latest patented firearms fol lows the baby and his nurse to and fro across the lawn wherever the ridt leads possession of this new style of perambulator adds another to the dis tinction-enjoyed by the mclean baby it is probable that he is the only baby in the whole world who is thus safeguarded the pictures of the chil dren of the czar of russia strewing that even those carefully looked after children take the air in perambulators of ordinary type - another distinction enjoyed by the mclean child other than that of being america's richest baby is that he takes iris naps in the only gol den cradle known to be in^the united states this cradle was presented to the mcleans by the late king leopold of belgium â€¢ mrs ediuard mclean and her 100,000,000 baby with sketch showing the child encaged in his new kidnaparproof perambulator biplane carries four passengers on flight charles f wiliard makes new rec ord by taking three on quarter mile air trip ni.w voltk aug 1 1 a feat in vin ilon unparalleled in this or any other coun try was gneeefi'sfully performed oh hemp stead plains near mlueoln to-day when charles f wulard look his biplane into the air carrying three passengers besides himself wiliard took his three friends a distance of a quarter of a nine al on average height of twenty feet wiliard called for otuuteers and it u patterson archie alliln and h m wiliard signified their irilltuguegs to tnke'a chance ttt.lu.rd tucked then away in all sorts of positions nnd finally took ids seat the machlue shot into the air a distance ot about twenty feet and then wenl ahead lon ii n even keel for libont a quarter ota nh'e when ivillard came back to earth apparently the feat was nerfornioil with i out the slightest difficulty it ia (!><â€¢ first i t lue n iuce che wrights started hying hea ! let tli .:. air aihrhiues thai one has gone ! .-â– ):._â– 1 carrj iug i nr persons one of the most gpecfnrultir slgbis yer i seea otitic held a witnessed during the i afternoon when wiliard harmim and cap tain imirlil were all-in the air at the â– loa _â– <>'"* u be tame direction trade schools to aid cupid is mayor's plan boston executive asserts young men are not mental equals of women wage earners boston aug 14 wkh the recently : compiled statistics proving that 48 per i cent of the women between the ages of i : i and 28 tire unmarried in boston mayor jobs v fitzgerald has taken up the 1 1 cudgel of reform in behalf of what he 1 1 considers a most serious and alarming i condition i mayor fit rays \: the men and women of boston do not i cotton to each other they are not oil | ' a pat uiittirnilr the girls are ahead ofh the boys the trouble i that tho women i ' a men are not on ;\ car mentally the only opportunity a man has of an educa tion s along professional lines woman : has more advantages in a mental educa tion in inauy lnstances they would have 10 give up comfortable salaries to ;,,. Â„,., the smaller one of the intended lias bands the mayor believes trade schools the solution of the boston man ia^v pi-ob lcm bums seek rawn pipers raid home of son-in-law marauders enter winnetka residence of r c brinkley custodian of documents relating to i c inquiry watchman leaves for an hour and returns to find furni ture smashed and mir â€¢ rors torn from the walls valuables ignored in search for hiding place private letters of dead man scat tered all over the floors the winnetka residence of robert c brinkley son-in-law of the late ira 6 rawu the mystery of whose death baa never been cleared up was entered by â€¢ burglars on saturday night the brinkley home was ransacked from top to bottom nothing of value save per haps the private papers of the late railroad magnate papers which it is thought might throw some light on the Illinois central graft investigation and mr p.awn's pos sible connection with the grafting opera tions â€” was taken since the death of mr rawn mr brink ley has been the custodian of his private papers what these papers were what they contained what light if any they might throw on the gigantic frauds per petrated on the Illinois central road and the investigation row in progress an in vestigation into which the name of the dead president of the motion railroad has been drawn are facts known only to the family of mr rawn private papers sought . but it is very evident that the persona . who forced their way into the brinkley home on saturday night were aware of the fact that mr rawu's private papers were in the possession of mr brinkley and it is ouly too evident that the possession of these papers was the object of the bur glary mr and mrs brinkley are in virginia on a visit in their absence a watchman had been hired to guard the home saturday night the watchman was away from the brinkley home for an hour when he returned he found the home in a state of confusion the men who had entered the house bad done their work thoroughly every room in the house had been moat carefully searched the contents of drawers and chests and trunks were scat tered about the different rooms desks had been broken open and the disarranged state of their contents showed that a hasty search had been made for papers furniture is smashed mirrors had been torn from the walls evidently this had been done on the pre sumption that papers might have been hid a den behind these mirrors furniture â€”^\ anything that looked as though it migblflj contain a hidden receptacle had bejfl smashed with axes or some other lnsttpj meats jh the second floor of the residence m m literally covered with the private pa-rjj of mr rawn these papers were scÃŸ tered about the floor bands had be^m torn from them and it was evident thah a hasty examination of their contents nmh been made but nothing of value save always tho papers had been taken the sliverwa-o was untouched jewelry was in plain flight and also untouched valuables were not what these burglars were after mr liawn died from ' the effects of a pistol bullet wound uefore his death iâ€”s name had been heard in connection with the grafting operations of the band or former Illinois officials who are alleged to have looted the road of millions family scouts suicide theory the rawn family ha3 nways insisted that mr rawn either shot himself accl ' dentally or was shot by nn intruder in the house la the early morning hours a coroner's jury was unable to determine how mr rawn had met his death al though the six men on the jury went on record as saying the preponderance or testimony heard by them iaeiiued to the i suicide theory ; the surmise is that it was thought by â– i parties interested mr rawn's private pa : | pers might contain evidence that would ; draw others into the investigation or that i would if destroyed protect some men who | are even now under suspicion | the family of mr rawu is still trying i i to prove that he was snot by a burglar or â€¢| an intruder a reward of 3,000 has been offered by the family for evidence that , v.ili prove the murder theory mr and mrs brinkley are expected home rem virginia to-day samuel h greeley the village presi dent does not believe that there were burglars in the brinkley residence ha declares the whole thing a hoax perpe trated to create a demand for better po 11 .â– protection iu the illage the enter ing of the brinkley home has not bean lu'ieiahy reported to the winnetka police

Chicago examiner the weather Â«\;Â§ Chicago and vicinity partly cloudy monday and tuesday mod \ 5 erate northeasterly winds becoming ifm variable % vol viii no 203 a m Chicago august 15 1910 monday monday jucfcttnd la u 8 patent offtofc exceptional bargains || are offered flatly in the musical in y\l strumenta columns of the examiner ks a if you wiah to get a new or second v .'. i hand piano at a rery moderate prie 1 4 read to jam m â‚¬ price one cent hy carrier v cents per month 100,000 in panic is belgian fair is burned women are trampled as men fight to escape white city flames two die loss may be 20,000,000 animals are burned alive as heat blocks efforts to shoot them special cable to the examiner brussels aug 14 the white city of the world's fair as the belgians have called their 1010 exhibition is to-night a mass of flames and smoldering ruins a spark falling into inflammable material in the telegraph building kindled flames which driven by a high wind swept rap idly in all directions soon tiie belgian english and french sectious were de stroyed the loss is estimated at from 10,000,000 to 20,000^000 the flremeu and detachments of soldiers called quickly upon the scene found them selves baffled by the veritable gaie which carried burning embers to all parts of the grounds to the left of the main building arose the picturesque roofs and spires of bra elles kermesse a belgian coney island with water chutes toboggan slides and scores of side shows tills place was alive with sunday crowds and before they could b gotten out with any semblance of order the kermessee wad on lire the crowds became panic-stricken one hundred thousand men women and ehil dren fought madly to escape the exits became choked with the struggling masses and meu used their lists to clear the path way many were trampled tinder foot and badly injured djt.amite pails lo stop fire a fire company from antwerp attempted to dynamite the bridge of the french sec tion in the hope of checking the tire but the flames leaped across and engulfed the italian russian austrian japanese chi nese and norwegian buildings forty houses on avenue splbosch adjoining the expesitii i were destroyed troops were ordered out and lame at double quick t â€¢ aid the police in clearing the great grounds this was ' accom plished iu fair order fecept within the limits of the kermesse where the vast crowds became entangled in an almost inextricable mass fighting desperately to find an esftipe from the flames which swep vi'-iuusly through the tinticr-likc structures soon the eutire facade tumbled iu ruins considering the rapidity of the eonflagra j tion the small loss of life is marvelous so far as known up to a late hour to j night onlj two are dcati the injured 1 as officially , announced number thirty \ but probably many hundreds received mi 1 cor hurts animals ordered shot as the names reached the menage e a command tvaslgiven to shoot the beasts but heat drova back the soldiers and the ;.!.;:â– !. .;.; were left to their fate tie multi tudes ere driven back to a safe distance and watched the thrilling spectacle Â»:' the destruction of the while city tongues of ere inor.'jted high into the heavens and flaming errrbcrs were carried off by the wind and jell upon the residences beyond betting ibera ou tire finally tl*c tire was gotten under con trol the belgian and english sections are in ruins while aii the other sections in cluding the american were partly de stroyed baud of thieves engaged in pillage and a soldier was stabbed while trying to ar â– â– â€¢-. : three icen wo v be found rilling a jewelry exhibit tiio exhibitors ars heavy sufferers belgium's white city stood near the end ci tin avenue i ouise the fasiioaahle park driveway which on the west side of brus sels leads i ul to the beautiful hois do la cambre the unllonr.i thn of the ilel ginn section roc majestically on a slight elevation facing tho main entrance to the left of the main bulhung was tl.-e kermesse pray for rain torrent pennsylvania srnogut broken after 20 pittsburg pastors petition â€¢ pittsiu bg i'a aug 14 prayer for rain from a score of pulpits iu pittsburg i was apparently answered to-day in short i order at 4 p ro the drought which hits had western pennsylvania in its grasp fori about ten weeks costing perhaps a million i dollars worth of damage was broken by a terrific torrent accompanied by hail the rain lasted some time and the weather bureau reported to-night thai the fall had been m2 of an inch the heaviest rainfall at any one time in almost two years there wa.s more prayer from pulpits for rain to day than at any other time iu the history of pittsburg ward sells lake home cliicnjjofi.il Â« ocimoiiiowoc estate lsi i plirchnmol j s i fourteen milwaukee wis aug 11 the a mongomery waul property on i.ae i.a belie has been purchased as a home by s Â«; courteen of ' milwaukee ohm of the director â€¢â– 'â– the wisconsin central road the property is lovatetl on lac la belle and has 100 acres ol land and a number of buildings the ward property is known a i.a belle knoll and is one of the most fceautii'ul iu the u'xnily of uconomoivoe florence nightingale florence nightingale angel of crimea dead woman who first organized system j of nursing on europe's battle fields expires in london special cable to the examiner london aug 14 florence nightingale the famous nurse of the crimean war and the only woman who ever received the order of merit died yesterday afternoon ! in her london home although she had | been an invalid for a long time rarely | leaving her room where she passed the i time in a half-recumbent position and was under the constant care of a physician her death was somewhat unexpected her funeral pill be simple as possible in accordance with her wishes jn may i last she celebrated her ninetieth birthday and was the recipient of a congratulatory message from king george florence nightingale has since the crimean war been regarded as the angel of the british army and occupied a place in the love and esteem of the people of the british empire corresponding to that hrtd in the united states by tiara bar ton founder of the red cross educated in nursing by the protestant sister of mercy at kalserwerth on the i rhine miss nightingale proceeded to the i crimea jn 1854 and organized a system of nursing which did much to mitigate the horrors of that long and desperately j fought campaign before the crimea the presence of trained nurses on the battle ] fields of europe was almost unknown and j her methods were adopted by practically i all civilized nations for her services in the crimea she wa*s given a testimonial by the f.nglish people of 250,000 and this she devoted to the fnunilatirn of the nightingale home fox the training of nurses she was also given the title of lady of grace of st john of jerusalem on being admitted to the order of st john later miss nightingale made a study of the sanitary condition of the british army in india and wrote . a voluminous report she was also author of i.ifo and heath in india notes on hospitals notes on i nursing and other volumes of a like nature florence nightingale was born may 12 iv.x and was the daughter of w k night ingale of ismbley park bomsey and lea hurst derbyshire preach in esperanto v/amiitiiglon pastors speak in siew l.crtiiase to visiting ijelegntes washington aug 14 men from many nations to-day attended church serv ices in washington and heard the ritual of the church read in esperanto the one lan guage that every race represented could un derstand these church services were at tended by most of the 1,200 delegates to the congress the protestants attended service at st paul's episcopal church where the rev raul hoffman of balti more rend the liturgy i;t fluent esperanto the catholics were eared for at st pat rick's church where the usual english parts of th mass were said in esperanto thirty-seven nations are represented and the picturesque language is heard on every side queen in war on plumes kiigrlinli sovereign sniÂ«l to footer uill prohluhltfa tralfic in i?irtl spci ial c able o the examiner london aug it the next session of j parlinnient is likely to b enlivened by i an interesting debate on the plumage bill j introduced before the dose of the last session for prohibiting tl'e ale or ex i change of plumage bird which are sae ! rlmced in enormous numbers ou the altar of fashion the report thai l^uetn mary herself inspired the bill is suffleieu ta lu'umlke an active anil successful kawpalgr vinre the gteat millinery establ'shmelils wuiidl had formerly opposed sn.-i moa ures are uot likely to oiler any opposition woman to win bet is man five years works for eight responsible new yoik firms without discovery hail fellow well met then she lets her hair grdw and elena smith replaces albert c martinez i * new york aug 14 with the disap j pcaraueo of albert c martinez the volatile j'young argentinian who has a host of ! friends in the city and the reappearance jin the world of elena b smith long i thought to be somewhere in south amer ! ica by her friends one of the most re i markable oases of a woman masquerading ! as a man has come to an end i in this city of new york which bonsts ' of its sharps eyes for nearly five years a i slender girl successfully eluded not only j detection but even suspicion , to win a wager she was compelled orig i inally to enact the role for but one year â– but complications arising she persisted ! for nearly four years longer until gradually j she was enabled to efface the man and j restore the woman without a too great ! shock to several fnmilies during the period mentioned it has been learned by independent verification mrs j smith held a man's position with at least i eight well-known business houses of the i city a hail fellow well met as a hail fellow well met after business j hours she lunched daily with her business 1 acquaintances drank with them smoked j with them and went to baseball games and races her identity was never guessed at then as a married man for to aid her she had a young woman who posed as her wife she gave entertainments at her home to the men of her acquaintance and their wives in return she visited ! their homes with her wife mrs fleita b smith is a slender dark j haired young woman with nothing mascu line in her appearance now that she has returned to skirts within the last month her voice is low pitched but soft and gentle she is now stopping at a hotel in the city where she narrated to-day the sto.'y of her eventful experiences masquerade follows wager mrs smith is the daughter of a new york family and married young she went to south america where she acquired a thorough knowledge of spanish she was in boston in july 1005 attending a bus iness college and bad no idea then ol ever becoming a man a group of men in a boston club one night in june 11105 were talking of a recent case in new york city where an employment agent turned out to have been a woman masquerading as a man the assertion was made that only women who were masculine in appearance could ac complish such a thing a physician con tended that he could find a woman in boston to do it and a wager was the result next day ths physician broached the subject to his smith and agreed to pay her 82 500 if she could live in a city pass as a man work as a man mingle with men for one year without detection the re sult of this was that as a man albert ('. martinez the young south american appeared in new y'ork a few weeks ago mr martinez began avoiding barber shops gradually absented h|mself fro:n business and mrs elena smith reappeared well lures rockefeller john i gets klieuniatlnm av'ntcr addresses farmers t'lnb cleveland 0 aug 14 a mag netic - well near chardon has attracted the attention of john 1 rockefeller and residents see him in his motor car nearly every afternoon the well water is said to alleviate rheumatism on his visits mr rockefeller has become acquainted with many farmers and he is expected to at tend the geauga county pioneers reunion september 10 at newbury several days ago the oil man on one of his motor trips to chardon gave a short address to the ruswell farmers club at the home of c h hlekox he stopped at the house anil introduced hiuiseir to the 100 farmers present 34 are killed in wreck 10.s j'uhkenprei's mostly school girls injured on l â€¢ Â« - crash many of the passengers were trampled npou cud probably family injured speedillg at :.!â€¢;;;.â€¢ miles an hour the excursion train with 1,'j.0 passengers on board struck an open switch and before the engineer realised the til smashed into a side-tracked freight train gad's hill teacher hurt mrs esther a est of hiiwtan hit by car and sent to hospital i i sirs esther v est of Chicago a teacher at gad's hill camp at lake clnff is ia i iierloiim condition at the jane mcallister i i-ivspllsil in yauke an frpmj ahock and â– brabtes sustained through being strut by lau electric car i luke uluff last night lake forest's rich play camera tag new picture-taking game be comes fad in north shore i millionaire colony snapshot wagers made lolita armour and mrs e a russell enthusiasts byron l smith hunts views a brand-new fad has struck the chi cago millionaire colony at lake torest the fad may not inaptly be termed specialized photography men and wom en are the faddists almost any afternoon a group of men whose names are well known in the busi ness and social world of Chicago may be seen wandering about the grounds of the fashionable onwentsia club with their eyes glued to a strange looking and strauaely shaped black box that they hold in their hands the boxes ire graflex cameras such as newspaper photographers use in their work the cameras are built for speed for taking snapshots exclutlvely byron l smith ardent devotee byron l smith president of the northern trust company bank trentis l coonley orville e bnbcock arthur t aldis frederick a mclaughlin and his brother george and joseph e hub bard are some of the most ardent devo tees of the graflex camera among the ranks of the onwentsians lolita armour and mrs e a russell are two other enthusiasts mrs russell has some fine pictures to show for her work miss armour has not had much success the men have become proficient in their work where formerly each worked alone the rivalry smoiig them has become so keen nowadays that they go hunting for good picture subjects in groups it is whispered on the verandas of the on wentsia club that many friendly wagers are made among these rich men as to who shall turn out the best action pic ture of a certain object agreed upon to be snapshotted freddie hires an expert just how the fad started no one knows freddie mclaughlin appeared at on i wenlsia one day with a camera tucked under his arm accompanying him was an expert hired to show mr mclanjrhlin the mysteries of the camera it is said that the compensation of this expert was 20 j a day byron l smith went to europe and while in berlin possessed himself of a fine camera he took many pictures abroad to mr smith's intense surprise when he returned be found that messrs coonley the mclaughlins aldis babeock and others were bent ou the same line of work then the amateur photographic contest began in earnest battle in theater lobby amelia bingliani'i hnshand fella man who calls her friend cleveland ohio aug 11 â€” lloyd bingham husband of amelia bingham fought a one-round battle with john lane connor leading man of the holdeu stock company in the lobby of the eiclid avenue garden theater there was no decision miss bingham last night played at the gar den and connor attended he did not like his seat went to the box office and declaring himself a good friend of the star de manded another seat lloyd bingham over heard iiim and asked his wife if she knew connor being assured she did not he demanded to know of connor why he had used his wife's name to get a better seat one word brought on another and the men were soon pounding each other iu regular pugilistic style btugham's white shirt front was stained by the blood from con nor's nose and face before spectators in terfered throne no bar to duke opposition to abruiti denied ao.st in the avnj rome aug 14 from a court official close to the king and queen of italy it was learned to-day that they had never opposed the marriage of miss katharine l elkins to the duke of abrttzzi the prin cipal objectors were the dowager queen margiierite and the duke of aosta abrux isl new intends asking them ii they are sti'l opposed to the wedding and if the reply is favorable abrurzi will make miss elkins his duchess and roynl princess should the reply be unfavorable it is re ported the duke will renounce b s title and will marry miss elkins in america it i learned that the duke has made a request to i'm king ami queen to permission to present miss elkins and her parents at i court and that the king has decided to re | ply after be eonsult.l the other members of the royal family vatican stand is firm willing to kestime neyotiatioiis if i>a:u holds i'p new laws special cable to the ejraanliser kome aug 14 the vatican's attitude i unchanged it is willing to resume tie gotiatioÃŸs tit the sthwe reached with lite bite government of spain but spain mrst v;t held leg bit ion regarding religions af fairs until a uoufplcte f.ettlemenl is eon a ic4 ii is in â– :â– lb-it the spanish ain ht'ssa/der visited the vatican before tearing coins richest baby in steel cage mcleans ward off kidnapers armed detective watches robber-proof peram bulator recent raid cause of new precautions sar harbor me aug 14 â€” a steel cage on wheels cunningly wrought by a skilled craftsman and safeguarded by locks of . the most complicated design for the morning rides of vinson mclean america's 100,000,000 ' baby is the latest and most startling novelty which the fond parents nave taken to protect this little croesus against kidnaping this steel cage perambulator lias followed ab a result of the recent attempt of burglars to break into the edward beale mclean mansion at bar harbor the mclean baby is now as carefully guarded from all save his nurse as if he were a little prisoner held as hostage whenever he goes out of doors he goes in his carriage cage padlocked and a pinkerton detective armed with the latest patented firearms fol lows the baby and his nurse to and fro across the lawn wherever the ridt leads possession of this new style of perambulator adds another to the dis tinction-enjoyed by the mclean baby it is probable that he is the only baby in the whole world who is thus safeguarded the pictures of the chil dren of the czar of russia strewing that even those carefully looked after children take the air in perambulators of ordinary type - another distinction enjoyed by the mclean child other than that of being america's richest baby is that he takes iris naps in the only gol den cradle known to be in^the united states this cradle was presented to the mcleans by the late king leopold of belgium â€¢ mrs ediuard mclean and her 100,000,000 baby with sketch showing the child encaged in his new kidnaparproof perambulator biplane carries four passengers on flight charles f wiliard makes new rec ord by taking three on quarter mile air trip ni.w voltk aug 1 1 a feat in vin ilon unparalleled in this or any other coun try was gneeefi'sfully performed oh hemp stead plains near mlueoln to-day when charles f wulard look his biplane into the air carrying three passengers besides himself wiliard took his three friends a distance of a quarter of a nine al on average height of twenty feet wiliard called for otuuteers and it u patterson archie alliln and h m wiliard signified their irilltuguegs to tnke'a chance ttt.lu.rd tucked then away in all sorts of positions nnd finally took ids seat the machlue shot into the air a distance ot about twenty feet and then wenl ahead lon ii n even keel for libont a quarter ota nh'e when ivillard came back to earth apparently the feat was nerfornioil with i out the slightest difficulty it ia (!>'"* u be tame direction trade schools to aid cupid is mayor's plan boston executive asserts young men are not mental equals of women wage earners boston aug 14 wkh the recently : compiled statistics proving that 48 per i cent of the women between the ages of i : i and 28 tire unmarried in boston mayor jobs v fitzgerald has taken up the 1 1 cudgel of reform in behalf of what he 1 1 considers a most serious and alarming i condition i mayor fit rays \: the men and women of boston do not i cotton to each other they are not oil | ' a pat uiittirnilr the girls are ahead ofh the boys the trouble i that tho women i ' a men are not on ;\ car mentally the only opportunity a man has of an educa tion s along professional lines woman : has more advantages in a mental educa tion in inauy lnstances they would have 10 give up comfortable salaries to ;,,. Â„,., the smaller one of the intended lias bands the mayor believes trade schools the solution of the boston man ia^v pi-ob lcm bums seek rawn pipers raid home of son-in-law marauders enter winnetka residence of r c brinkley custodian of documents relating to i c inquiry watchman leaves for an hour and returns to find furni ture smashed and mir â€¢ rors torn from the walls valuables ignored in search for hiding place private letters of dead man scat tered all over the floors the winnetka residence of robert c brinkley son-in-law of the late ira 6 rawu the mystery of whose death baa never been cleared up was entered by â€¢ burglars on saturday night the brinkley home was ransacked from top to bottom nothing of value save per haps the private papers of the late railroad magnate papers which it is thought might throw some light on the Illinois central graft investigation and mr p.awn's pos sible connection with the grafting opera tions â€” was taken since the death of mr rawn mr brink ley has been the custodian of his private papers what these papers were what they contained what light if any they might throw on the gigantic frauds per petrated on the Illinois central road and the investigation row in progress an in vestigation into which the name of the dead president of the motion railroad has been drawn are facts known only to the family of mr rawn private papers sought . but it is very evident that the persona . who forced their way into the brinkley home on saturday night were aware of the fact that mr rawu's private papers were in the possession of mr brinkley and it is ouly too evident that the possession of these papers was the object of the bur glary mr and mrs brinkley are in virginia on a visit in their absence a watchman had been hired to guard the home saturday night the watchman was away from the brinkley home for an hour when he returned he found the home in a state of confusion the men who had entered the house bad done their work thoroughly every room in the house had been moat carefully searched the contents of drawers and chests and trunks were scat tered about the different rooms desks had been broken open and the disarranged state of their contents showed that a hasty search had been made for papers furniture is smashed mirrors had been torn from the walls evidently this had been done on the pre sumption that papers might have been hid a den behind these mirrors furniture â€”^\ anything that looked as though it migblflj contain a hidden receptacle had bejfl smashed with axes or some other lnsttpj meats jh the second floor of the residence m m literally covered with the private pa-rjj of mr rawn these papers were scÃŸ tered about the floor bands had be^m torn from them and it was evident thah a hasty examination of their contents nmh been made but nothing of value save always tho papers had been taken the sliverwa-o was untouched jewelry was in plain flight and also untouched valuables were not what these burglars were after mr liawn died from ' the effects of a pistol bullet wound uefore his death iâ€”s name had been heard in connection with the grafting operations of the band or former Illinois officials who are alleged to have looted the road of millions family scouts suicide theory the rawn family ha3 nways insisted that mr rawn either shot himself accl ' dentally or was shot by nn intruder in the house la the early morning hours a coroner's jury was unable to determine how mr rawn had met his death al though the six men on the jury went on record as saying the preponderance or testimony heard by them iaeiiued to the i suicide theory ; the surmise is that it was thought by â– i parties interested mr rawn's private pa : | pers might contain evidence that would ; draw others into the investigation or that i would if destroyed protect some men who | are even now under suspicion | the family of mr rawu is still trying i i to prove that he was snot by a burglar or â€¢| an intruder a reward of 3,000 has been offered by the family for evidence that , v.ili prove the murder theory mr and mrs brinkley are expected home rem virginia to-day samuel h greeley the village presi dent does not believe that there were burglars in the brinkley residence ha declares the whole thing a hoax perpe trated to create a demand for better po 11 .â– protection iu the illage the enter ing of the brinkley home has not bean lu'ieiahy reported to the winnetka police